Bok duo face drug probe
14 Dec 2010
Saru will appoint an Anti-Doping Tribunal to investigate doping allegations against Springboks Chiliboy Ralepelle and Bjorn Basson.
The players returned an adverse analytical finding for a prohibited stimulant, methylhexaneamine, following the match between South Africa and Ireland in Dublin on 6 November. Both players asked for their ‘B’ sample to be tested, which confirmed the findings of the ‘A’ sample.
The players will not contest the testing procedures or related matters under the 2010 Autumn Internationals Anti-Doping Programme and therefore the investigation and hearing will be conducted in South Africa.
Investigations remain on-going and a date for the hearing, as well as the composition of the tribunal, will be announced once those have been completed in the new year.
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14 Dec 2010, 23:41 pm
@stormersboy : I’m accusing them of intentional dishonesty.
15 Dec 2010, 00:09 am
@Treehugger : It wasn’t a nose spray for a cold. They had their colds treated in SA, not in UK. And this drug becomes undetectable after only 3 days, so their nose spray would have worked itself out by the time of their test.
The drug was, most likely, in their gym powder supplements which they took all the way through the tour, including the days of the first two tests where their performace-enhancing drugging was finally exposed.
They didn’t swallow this drug with their hotel corn-flakes. It was deliberate. They simply didn’t think it would be revealed in their tests. They were wrong.
15 Dec 2010, 01:03 am
Guilty verdict has been reached by all kiwi’s the world over…as it would have been if any AB had the same press…except the Bok response would have been putting it under a heading such ” We now know why the Kiwis have kicked our asses so hard and for so long–drug cheats”.
15 Dec 2010, 03:17 am
Just to clarify this issue (Im a Strength and Conditioning coach, train with Bodybuilders/Athletes/Powerlifters) – without any confirmation, the stimulant they tested positive for (Im 99.99% sure) was 1,3 Dimethylamylamine.
It is a compound found in many pre-workout (Gym, does little for game performance) supplements – used worldwide by recreational gym rats (hell, every 2nd 16 year old you see trying to get big in the gym is on this stuff).
Its the same thing 9 Australian Rugby League players tested positive for. It’s a legal supplement, but banned by sporting bodies.
Without the facts, one can deduce that these guys simply took a few scoops before a Gym session that week, were then tested closer to the match, and tested positive.
Just thought I would post my 0.2 cents, to clear up the misinformation going on here.
15 Dec 2010, 03:19 am
@captain fantail :
>> ” We now know why the Kiwis have kicked our asses so hard and for so long–drug cheats”.
I think you mean something like “It’s confirmed, the cheats are exposed at yet another level”
@TheTackler :
>> “The drug was, most likely, in their gym powder supplements which they took all the way through the tour, including the days of the first two tests where their performace-enhancing drugging was finally exposed.”
The word is “performance”, “mace” is normally a type of tear gas. Unless you have slipped up on this thread and are exposing how the Kiwis get their illegal doses, and why Carter’s eyes go wide and always has those crocodile tears at the key matches from overdose.
>> “They didn’t swallow this drug with their hotel corn-flakes. It was deliberate. They simply didn’t think it would be revealed in their tests. They were wrong.”
Well probably they assumed the SA scientists had developed it to as high a standard as the Kiwi one.
All-in-all Chilli-boy’s unfortunate incident will be good for SA rugby, he is a liability on-field.
15 Dec 2010, 03:38 am
Ho hum……….so two Bok players have some form of “banned” substance in their tests……at this stage no-one, including the team Dr, seems to know exactly what was taken, when, unknowingly or otherwise, but yet again we have a couple of a-holes that want to jump in and kick the whole Bok system, country …….the whole shabangs. Tackler, sometimes you act like a childish little w anker. Grow the f u k up!
15 Dec 2010, 04:17 am
@jaimie : It’s banned as a performance enhancer — which is exactly why gym pumpers take it before a work-out.
It’s not an innocent substance like a caramel ice-cream topping or a nose-cold spray. It’s in that gym powder to boost performance.
And these two drug-cheats got well and truly BUSTED.
15 Dec 2010, 06:48 am
@TheBoksAreBack : chilli boy may be a liability, as you say. but the more important issue for me is why the players were not made aware that the substance used would lead to exaclty these kinds of problems. guess we can thank our lucky stars victor / bismark, or any of the others “important” players werent tested that day
15 Dec 2010, 16:29 pm
51. TheTackler
It’s good that the so called “The Tackler” finds release in these columns. If it were not so for this non breast fed person he would more as likely focus on your daughters )or sons). Count your blessings and let him contibnue with his irrational rantings.
He is clearly unwell and is in need of psychological evaluation.
In other words he is fucked in the head!
16 Dec 2010, 03:48 am
@TheTackler : Truly spoken like someone with absolutely no knowledge on the topic at hand. It is the equivelant of having a very strong cup of coffee, or a few red bulls – it does not turn them into professional bodybuilders in the gym.
How about you keep your “opinions” to topics where you can at least keep up with that is going on.
18 Dec 2010, 10:29 am
You can have ten Red Bulls and twenty espressos and you’ll still come out clean in any drug test. Caffeine isn’t a prohibited performance-enhancing drug.
The gym powder taken by these two drug-cheats IS a banned performance-enhancer, and that’s precisely why they’ve been busted.
You only get busted for BANNED drugs, not for acceptable ones.
Just suck it up. They ARE drug-cheats.
18 Dec 2010, 10:34 am
@TheTackler : Ok they are drug cheats. Is it because they are of a certain pigment ??
18 Dec 2010, 12:18 pm
@bananas : Is that what YOU think?
18 Dec 2010, 13:22 pm
They are not drug cheats, they wouldn’t risk it, it would be career ending, well for Chilli the way he plays is career ending but Basson has so much potential.
@TheTackler : I specially have my spell check thingie on for you
18 Dec 2010, 13:23 pm
@Treehugger : Or should i say i am paying attention to it now that i figured out how to use it.
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